Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Laws of the FIFA World Cup

The post describes the massive rule book that governs World Cup matches as well as some of the legal controversies surrounding the conditions Brazil had to accept in order to host the event.

Earlier Library Boy posts that discuss sports and the law include:

From Lawyers' Wigs to Baseball Uniforms (March 9, 2006): "The Law Library Journal
(American Association of Law Libraries) published 'Baseball and the
Law: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, 1990–2004' in the spring of
2005."

World Cup 2006 in Germany - The Law on Doping in Sports
(May 26, 2006): "The World Cup of Soccer, perhaps the world's greatest
sporting extravaganza with the exception of the Summer Olympic Games, is
taking place this June in Germany. And where there's international
sports, there's the use of performance-enhancing drugs, or 'doping'
(...) So what laws and regulations apply to sports and doping?"

New Law Library Journal Articles (September 6, 2006): "We have just received Law Library Journal vol. 98, no. 3 (Summer 2006) at the Supreme Court of Canada library. Among the articles that caught my attention: (...) Exploring the Court of Arbitration for Sport:
'The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), recognized as an emerging
leader in international sports dispute resolution, was created
specifically to address sports-related matters. Since its formation, the
CAS has addressed a wide range of sports-related issues, including
matters pertaining to the positive drug tests of athletes, the
challenges to technical decisions of officials made during competition,
and the eligibility of athletes to compete in the Olympic Games. Of
significance, CAS awards have been recognized as developing a lex
sportiva, that is, a set of guiding principles and rules in
international sports law'. "

New Internet Research Guide for Olympic Studies
(April 2, 2008): "Intute, a British university consortium that offers
free online service access to evaluated web resources for education and
research, has just published a new subject booklet entitled 'Internet
resources for Olympic studies'. The booklet describes resources relating
to associations, the history of the Olympic Games, past and future
Games, athletes, sports research, event management, and legal issues
(arbitration of sports disputes, disability sports, gender equity and
doping)."

Law and the Olympics
(January 6, 2010): "Blogosaurus Lex, the blog from the Legal Resource
Centre of Alberta, had a post in December on Law and the Olympics."

Updated Research Guide on International Sports Law
(August 31, 2011): "The GlobaLex collection at the New York University
School of Law has just updated its International Sports Law research
guide. It looks at the key institutions governing international sports
(...) There are sections on doping, women and sports, violence as well
as suggested sports law bibliographies, databases and periodicals."

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